[Coco] Using that 16/32/64 MB RamDrive.
Theodore Evans (Alex)
alxevans at concentric.net
Sat Feb 7 15:44:19 EST 2004
On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Paul T. Barton wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>> I get $03E000 good sectors for a full
>> ~62mb ramdisk. For a size of
>> ($3E000 * 256) 65,011,712 bytes.
>
> PS. I think that is what you should see. 2^25=33,554,432 and 2^26 =
> 67,108,864 so the power of 2 closest to 64Meg is really 67Meg. If that
> is not the size of the Nocan64 let me know.
I think his figures were accurate. 64M is $4000000 bytes or $40000
sectors, but he didn't use the whole 64M for a ram disk, but rather
$2000 (8192) sectors short of that or exactly 62M. Presumably the
other 2M is being used for the main memory of OS-9.
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